Working out: English fitness vocabulary. Working out: English fitness vocabulary Words of English origin on the topic of sports

Which, to one degree or another, covers sports topics. But when I delved into this topic in more detail, I could not help but notice a wide sports vocabulary, which is divided into many facets. Just think how much sport has become embedded in our lives, even if we are not active “physical” fans of it.

An example from life - you are watching a football broadcast, where the commentator talks about the outcome of the match only on . Naturally, in this case, you will only be imbued with football vocabulary, where time will no longer be translated as time, and goal will not be the target. It's like speaking English with native speakers at ACE, where you're completely immersed in the English language experience. How many other different games are there that are also unique in their vocabulary?

Let's take cards, chess, checkers? Combinations that we know in Russian as goes without saying, already complex expressions in English. All this made me think about sports topics and study them in more detail, as well as sort them out. I’m not saying that the selection that is already on the site has lost its uniqueness, I just want to structure useful sports vocabulary.

I almost forgot, to be continued...

List of sports vocabulary in English with translation:

breaststroke- breaststroke (Olympic swimming style)
category- rank in sports
champion- champion; first prize winner, first place winner
cloakroom- locker room
coaching- training
crawl- crawl (swimming style)
cup- cup
cycle track— cycle track
defeat- defeat
disqualification— disqualification; deprivation of the right to smth.
drawn game- draw
finale- the final
finish- finish
forwards- attack
fullback- defender (in football)
game- game, party, match, game
goal- goal
junior— junior
kitty- con (gambling)
knockout- knockout
leader— leader
Olympiad- Olympics, Olympic Games
Olympian- Olympian
out- out
penalty- penalty
point- point
pool- swimming pool
prizewinner- winner; laureate
race- mileage
races- racing
record- record
record holder- record holder, record holder
score— score (in game)
stadium- stadium
tape- ribbon at the finish line
tie- equal score, draw
time- time
victory- victory
winner- winner; first prize winner

Words on the topic “Sport” in English with transcription

Good day everyone! It's no secret how important sports and a healthy lifestyle are in our lives. This is probably why we are not only interested in sports at the amateur level, but also follow the victories of professional athletes, and some of us are involved in professional sports ourselves. As you guessed, the goal of our lesson today is to learn to talk in English about the talents and abilities of athletes, as well as to speak in English about your personal sports data. Sports vocabulary in English. Gymnastics

Also today you will learn how to express your support for your favorite athletes or sports clubs in English. Get your workbook ready and let's get started! This time, the Voice of America radio reporter went to one of the sports sections. There Martin Lerner decided to talk with a good coach of a group of gymnasts. They discuss the athletic abilities of one of the talented gymnasts, who shows great promise:

Bret:Let's watch some of the men. — Let's look at some athletes (men)
Martin:Can we watch the parallel bars? That young man looks really good. —Can we watch the parallel bars? That young man looks really, really good
Bret:It's not. He's one of the best. Notice how fast he is. - It is he. He is one of the best. Notice how fast he is
Martin:But he's very smooth. - But he makes every movement very smoothly
Bret: That's the idea. He has to show lots of energy. But there can’t be a break. Every movement has to be smooth. - That's the idea. He must show a lot of energy. But there can be no break. Every movement should be smooth (smooth).

Re-read the fragment of the conversation between the journalist and the coach. What speech patterns do they use to characterize the talents and abilities of a young athlete? Find and write down these lexemes in your notebook.

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Now listen carefully to the audio recording of the lesson, which contains this interview in its entirety, as well as other sports vocabulary. Listen to every sound of a word or expression spoken by a professional speaker to practice your own American pronunciation and learn how to speak English like the Way They Say It in America course. This is the only way you will master communication skills: /wp-content/uploads/2014/12/russian_english_101.mp3

Remember that the ability to understand the fluency of ordinary Americans is as important a communication skill as correct English pronunciation and vocabulary. Therefore, try to listen to live American speech every day: listen to our lessons, audio books, listen to songs in English, watch American films in the original, etc. Or better yet, make friends from America and communicate with them via Skype.

Sports vocabulary in English

A compact text table with words and phrases in Russian and English will help you quickly remember new material, as well as trace the peculiarities of using vocabulary about sports and athletes in English. Remember also the words you learned in previous lessons.

Save the chart on your computer or print it out so you can review and review new vocabulary from time to time.

If you are into hardware, subscribe to blogs about fitness, bodybuilding, or just work out in the gym, trying to keep fit, you probably know how much information on this topic exists in English. However, if you study sites on this topic, it turns out that there is a lot of specific vocabulary in it. From this collection you will learn the basic English words on the topic of working out in the gym.

I identified three lexical subtopics:

1. Body, names of muscles

Any school dictionary contains words on the topic “human body,” but here there is another specificity: the selection includes words such as names of muscles. Many of them are simplified versions of scientific, Latin names, for example: pecs (pectoral muscles) - from lat. pectoralis.

2. Sports equipment

Nowadays there are a great variety of exercise machines, equipment, devices, this selection includes the most common ones that you can see in any fitness club.

3. Exercises

Despite the fact that there are a lot of exercises, they are mainly built from some basic types of movements: deadlifts, presses, squats, fly-ups, etc. The selection includes the most basic (in the linguistic sense) exercises and types of movements. However, if you want more detailed information, bodybuilding.com has a section with an illustrated exercise dictionary. There is no translation, but there are pictures and videos - in practical terms, this is much more important.

Perhaps the topic of “nutrition” should have been included, but it is so broad that I decided to leave it for a separate post.

As usual, each set of words is presented as:

1. Electronic cards.
2. List of words.
3. Printable PDF cards.

Notes:

1. Workout and work out

Don't confuse the noun workout(training), which is written together, and to work out– train, consisting of a verb and an adverb.

2. Chin-up VS pull-up

Pull-ups in English are called chin-ups or pull-ups. There is no difference between the terms, but sometimes the word chin-up is used when they want to emphasize that the pull-up should be until the chin touches the bar (chin - chin).

3. Arm - arm to hand, hand - hand

In Russian, we can call both the entire limb and the hand a hand (give me your hand). In English, a brush is never called an arm, only a hand.

4. Leg - leg to foot, foot - foot

The same goes for the words leg and foot. In Russian we can also call a foot a leg, but in English we can only call it foot. By the way, foot is one of the few nouns that forms the plural in a non-standard way: foot – feet.

5. To work out VS to lift weights

The verb “to work out” means training in a general sense. This could be gymnastic exercises, cardio exercises or weight training. But the phrase “to lift weights” roughly corresponds to our “to lift”, that is, to exercise with weights: dumbbells, barbells, etc.

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Today we will look at vocabulary on the topic of sports in English. Sport has become quite firmly entrenched in our lives. We do fitness, go to the gym, attend volleyball and football games, etc. Almost every inhabitant of the Earth watches sports news and videos, and, of course, talks about sports. We have made a selection of current designs on the theme “Sports” especially for you. Having learned them, you will be able to carry on a conversation on this topic with an English-speaking interlocutor without any obstacles. All designs are grouped by the initial letters of the Russian alphabet.

Phrases used in football and necessary for fans

Places where they play sports. Posters in public places often contain these designs.

Sports vocabulary related to cycling

Equipment intended for sports activities

Board games

Sayings related to cards

Terms related to chess

Terms for sporting events.

They are essential for understanding posters found in public places.

Other words related to sports topics

There are many quotes dedicated to sports. And the aphorisms of the players are found everywhere. This is due to the fact that the role of sport in society is increasing every year. Thanks to our selection of vocabulary on the current topic of sports in English, you will not only be able to understand sports news, but also be able to communicate without barriers on this topic.

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English words on the topic “Sport” for beginners with tasks. 30 words (minimum) will help you say a few sentences on the topic “Your favorite sport,” talk about your favorite athlete and how you keep fit.

Sport. English words on the topic "Sport". List No. 1

1. sport - sport
2. sportsman - athlete
3. sports (kinds of sports) - types of sports
4. sports club - sports section
5. sports school - sports school
6. do sports - do sports
7. do wrestling - do wrestling
8. play sports (games) - play sports games
9. play basketball (chess) - play basketball (chess)
10. go skateboarding - ride a skateboard, etc.
11. go in for - to engage
12. go in for swimming - go swimming
13. football player - football player
14. be a fan of... - fan
15. join a sports club - join a sports club (club)
16. to take part in…. (competitions) - take part in ... (competitions)
17. to take place in…. - go to...
18. to win / to lose - win / lose ...
19. to win a prize / a cup - win a prize / cup
20. a winner / a loser - winner / loser
21. match - match
22. competition - competition
23. train - to train
24. do training - go to training
25. at/in the skating rink - at the skating rink
26. at/in the stadium - at the stadium
27. at the football pitch - on the football field
28. at the sports ground - on the sports ground
29. in the gym - in the gym
30. in the swimming pool - in the pool

Speaking on Sports

Exercise 1.

Say what sport you played when you were … years old and what sport you are playing now.

1. When I was... years old, I played...
2. Now I am playing…

Exercise 2.Translate the task and say.

Say something about a competition that you saw in this kind of sport. If you know, say who the Russian champion is and who the world champion is in this kind of sport.

Use:

• basketball game; hockey game;
• tennis match boxing match; football match; table tennis match;
• swimming competition; racing competition; figure-skating competition; speed-skating competition.

EXAMPLE. I like to watch racing competitions. I am a racing competition fan. I saw an interesting racing competition last Thursday. … is the Russian racing champion.

Exercise 3.Answer the questions:

1. What sport do you go in for?
2. How good are you at it?
3. Why do you think that you are good/ not very good at it?
4. How often do you go in for sports?
5. Why do you go in for that sport?

Exercise 4. Replace the underlined word.

1. Football is popular in almost all the countries in the world.
2. If it begins to rain the children give up their program and go back to school.
3. When they come to their gym they change into their sports clothes.
4. He does sports every day.

Exercise 5. Translate into Russian.

a famous sportsman, kinds of sports, join a sports club, do sports, go in for wrestling, take part in competitions, take place at the stadium, win a cup, lose a game, do training, at the football pitch, at the sports ground, at the skating rink, in the gym, the winner of the competition, be a loser.

Exercise 6. If you want to go in for sports you need certain traits of character and skills. What sports skills should different sportsmen have?

• traits of character- character traits
• sports skills –skills

Exercise 7. Translate from English.

1. I go in for water sport.
2. Of all outdoor games I prefer volleyball.
3. Of all indoor games I like chess best.
4. I go to the school gym three times a week.
5. I couldn’t go to the gym yesterday as I had many things to do.
6. My friend Nick does (has) his training daily.
7. He is good at westling.
8. I don't like to watch boxing
9. I am fond of watching football matches.
10. I never miss matches of my favorite team.
11. What sports do your friends go in for?
12. Who is good at gymnastics?
13. Where does he train?
14. How often does he go to the gym?
15. What kind of sport do you like best? most of all?
16. Do you spend much time on sport?
17. Sport makes people strong and healthy.
18. If you want to keep fit you must go in for one kind of sport or another.
19. Almost every day I do some training.
20. In summer I go swimmimg.

Exercise 8.Translate to English.

1. I go swimming.
2. Every day I go to the pool.
3. My friends also like to swim.
4. We often go to the pool together.
5. I would like Alexey to join us.
6. They often play football.
7. I also love to play football.
8. Football is played on the football pitch.
9. Football players train every day.
10. I want them to win the match.

ANSWERS to Exercise 5

1. all over the world, 2. stop. 3. put on, 4. daily